Czech composer Leoš Janáček is a unique musical voice with an uncanny ability to suggest mood with just a few notes, an understated but passionate lyricism, and an emotional charge to his operas as powerful as any in the 20th century.

Giacomo Puccini is regarded as the greatest Italian composer of the generation after Giuseppe Verdi.

Orpheus has became the emblem of the artist who rises above earthly worries and brings us closer to eternal truths.

In partnership with young artists’ programmes in Europe and beyond, OperaVision streams performances, masterclasses, and concerts by the next generation of talent, as well as follow them through a new podcast series.

Soprano is the highest operatic voice and the most common in the female range.

Mezzo-soprano, or ‘half-soprano’ is the female voice that stands between the soprano and the contralto.

Working alongside the conductor, director and the rest of the creative team, the opera designer creates the space in which the opera will be ‘set’.

Diverse and dramatic, opera costumes are the first thing to appear in the spotlight, even before the performer has sung a note.

A man of the Enlightenment, Mozart is not a political animal; he has a sharp eye on the world around him.

The Italian for ‘beautiful singing’ is used to describe Italian opera of the first part of the 19th century. Three pre-eminent Italian composers of that era are Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini.

The Phantom of the Opera? It's not just in musicals that you'll find ghosts. Opera as its share of haunted houses too.

Composer Richard Wagner, despite the controversies surrounding his life and political views, bestrides German opera like a colossus.

Opera is certainly not the most tender artform to women. Between sacrifices, rapes, forced marriages, illnesses, suicides or even murders, women are often presented as the victims of a destiny. Here we focus on female roles who stand out by virtue of their strong, independent and enterprising character.

Tenors in opera frequently take the leading male role. They are said to have irresistible charm - on and off stage!